In this nightmarish engraving by the master of witchcraft art, Jacques de Gheyn, the fantasies of infanticide are depicted. Hags tend a cauldron on a brazier, to the ceremony a heavily pregnant young woman ominously arrives; her almost naked companion behind her carries a baby's head on a platter. The artist is imagining the obscene; a fantasy of desirable women doing the unthinkable. A rocket-assisted witch exits via the chimney, another with distaff and spindle sits to guard the scene, her toad-familiar beneath her stool. A young man, drugged or dead, lies in a shallow pit. Judging by other engravings by de Gheyn, he will be dissected for body parts